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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

The Sauce That Can Go With Any Seafood

If you have only tried warm butter sauce or cocktail sauce for your seafood, you've gotta try this special sauce. It's...different...but savory and rich in flavor. Plus, it's easy to make!

The sauce is popular in South East Asian cuisine. If you like garlicky, sour, herbaly (is it a word!?), and possibly spicy flavors, you should try it. When you see the ingredients, you might be able to guess what it's going to taste like.

Seafood is more likely to taste bland and therefore we need a sour twist to cut it. One of my friends had this sauce with raw oysters minus the lemon juice or sherry vinegar, and topped it with fried shallots. It was heaven. It's actually the way Thai people eat raw oysters too except they add a local herb called Acacia pennata.

My mom has also used it as a dipping sauce with fried vegetables and tofu. I have used this sauce with several recipes. The spiciness can be adjusted to your preference.

Thanks everyone!@Mather Rimmy, yes you can but it depends on how long you would marinate it for. This sauce works better for dipping. If you marinate it more than 2 hrs, I don't think it would taste good due to lime juice. You can try and let me know how it turns out!

I love this sauce. Seafood is tops on my list as I am not much of a meat eater. I'm always looking for a different sauce other than butter and cocktail sauce to go with my seafod. It almost felt like you were talking directly to me in this post. Haha. Great combo of ingredients. Love this! Thank you for sharing Tanantha.